Selected Media

ScienceNews. A new road map shows how to prevent pandemics. By Brianna Randall, April 19th, 2024.

National Public Radio. How do we halt the next pandemic? Be kind to critters like bats, says a new paper. By Ari Daniel, March 26th, 2024.

News Decoder. A different kind of butterfly effect. By Maggie Fox, March 4th, 2024.

The Atlantic. The Viral Threat Almost No One Is Thinking About. By Katherine J. Wu, October 29th, 2023.

The Telegraph. Lancet launches major ‘spillover’ investigation as two die of bird flu, including a toddler. By Sarah Newey, October 11th, 2023.

Devex. New team to tackle viral spillover for pandemic prevention. By Andrew Green, October 17th, 2023.

Reuters. Bats carry killer viruses. Scientists suggest ways to cope. May 17th, 2023.

Reuters. How a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people. May 17th, 2023.

ProPublica. Why Scientists Struggle to Fund Research on Predicting Outbreaks. By Caroline Chen, May 23, 2023.

ProPublica. The Scientist and the bats. By Caroline Chen, May 22, 2023.

WWL First News. Live interview with Tommy Tucker on pathogen spillover. March 1st, 2023.

Science News Explores. Protecting forests may help head off future pandemics. By Alison Stevens, February 13th, 2023.

Scientific American. A Secret Weapon in Preventing the Next Pandemic: Fruit Bats. New research links bat habitat destruction with the spillover of their viruses to humans. By Jim Robbins, February 3rd, 2023.

The Economist. Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases. Graphic detail section. January 31st, 2023. 

National Public Radio. 9 diseases that keep epidemiologists up at night. By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred, January 29th, 2023.

Le Monde. Le renard volant éclaire l’émergence des pandémies. By Nathaniel Herzberg, January 5th, 2023.

Our paper in Nature received 357 headlines between 11/16/22-11/29/22 (293 in the US and 64 internationally) some notable articles are below:

New York Times. Deforestation Brings Bat-Borne Virus Home to Roost. By Emily Anthes, November 16th, 2022.

National Public Radio. An elegant way to stop deadly Hendra virus spillovers from bats to horses ... to us. By Ari Daniel, November 16th, 2022.

Newsweek. Emerging Killer Bat Virus Keeps Spilling Over to Horses. By Aristos Georgiou, November 16th, 2022.

Nature News. Why do bat viruses keep infecting people? By Smriti Mallapaty, November 16th, 2022.

Brisbane Times. Land clearing, climate change directly linked to Hendra virus outbreaks. By Stuart Layt, November 16th, 2022.

This Week in Virology Podcast; TWiV episode 923 ‘If a bat pees in a forest, does anyone care’? Recorded in front of live audience at the International Infectious Diseases of Bats meeting, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Aspen Institute Science & Society Program, Leaps Magazine, Science Philanthropy Alliance special issue One Health / One Planet”, Spillover: Climate Change and the New Pandemic Age, By Linda Marsa, May 31st, 2022.

One Health / One Planet. What’s Better than a Swift Response to Pandemics? Preventing Them in the First Place. By Matt Fuchs, May 31st, 2022.

The Atlantic. How climate change impacts pandemics. By Ed Yong, April 28th, 2022.

The Washington Post. How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for coronavirus’s origins. October 14th, 2021.

National Geographic. Can a new app predict the next pandemic? April 6th, 2021.

ScienceNews. We still don’t know for sure where the coronavirus came from. Here’s why. March 18th, 2021.

Scienmag. Study Suggests Healthy Ecosystems Are Vital In Reducing Risk Of Future Deadly Pandemics. March 11th, 2021.

The Missoulian. Bigger than COVID? Study warns land use errors could unleash new pandemics. March 9th, 2021.

The New Yorker. Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? January 25th, 2021.

The Atlantic. The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb. December 31st, 2020.

National Geographic. Why cold weather makes it harder for the body to fight respiratory infections. December 15th, 2020.

AP News. Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic. December 14th, 2020.

Rolling Stones. How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era. December 7th, 2020.

The Wallstreet Journal. Winter Offers Perfect Conditions for Covid-19 Spread, Studies Show. December 4th, 2020.

Nature Career. How to shift into COVID-19 research. November 20th, 2020.

Nature News. Why COVID outbreaks look set to worsen this winter. October 23rd, 2020.

The Telegraph. Experts reveal how to optimise heat and humidity to reduce Covid transmission inside the home. October 22nd, 2020.

Wired. It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again. October 20th, 2020.

The Naked Scientists. Where Did COVID Come From? September 1st, 2020.

The Scientist. Characteristics that Give Viruses Pandemic Potential. August 17th, 2020.

GloboNews (Brazilian TV). Destruição do meio ambiente aumenta transmissão de infecções de animais para humanos. July 17th, 2020

American Heart Association. Where do new viruses like the coronavirus come from? July 9th, 2020.

Freethink. Bats Are Not The Enemy. May 22nd, 2020.

Science Magazine. Case clustering emerges as key pandemic puzzle. May 22nd, 2020.

Ensia. We don’t know what else is out there.” Five ways new diseases emerge — and what we can do about them. May 12th, 2020.

Montana Public Radio. Montana Scientists Shift Focus To COVID Research. May 11th, 2020.

Wired. Infrared Cameras Can Spot a Fever, but May Not Slow Covid-19. May 11th, 2020.

New York Times. Is the Cure for Covid in the Rocky Mountains? May 7th, 2020.

The Sydney Morning Herald. Can you catch COVID-19 from Aussie bats? When are you immune? Your questions answered. May 6th, 2020.

NPR. Scientists Think The Coronavirus Transmitted Naturally, Not In A Lab. Here's Why. May 6th, 2020.

The Atlantic. How Bats Might Have Tamed the Coronavirus. May 5th, 2020.

The Conversation. No, Aussie bats won’t give you COVID-19. We rely on them more than you think. April 30th, 2020.

New York Times. In race for a coronavirus vaccine, an Oxford Group leaps ahead. April 27th, 2020.

NPR. Virus Researchers Cast Doubt On Theory Of Coronavirus Lab Accident. April 23rd, 2020.

Australian Geographic. Do our fruit bats carry the virus behind COVID-19? April 23rd, 2020.

Australia ABC. Yes, bats have lots of viruses, but the spill over to humans is because of humans; says bat expert. April 23rd, 2020.

The Conversation. Coronavirus: three misconceptions about how animals transmit diseases debunked. April 16th, 2020.

National Geographic. There are more viruses than stars in the universe. Why do only some infect us? April 15th, 2020.

NAT Chat. Dr. Peter Hudson on COVID-19. April 13th, 2020.

NPR. Research: Coronavirus Can Live For A Long Time In Air, On Surfaces. March 13th, 2020.

CBS. Tracking a virus: How technology can predict outbreaks earlier. March 9th, 2020.

VICE News. Here’s How Scientists Think Coronavirus Spreads from Bats to Humans. February 13th, 2020.

Outbreak News Today. Nipah virus with Emily Gurley, PhD. February 11th, 2020.